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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Dog Littles Writing
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical

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